LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

JANUARY 7TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At 3.55 P.M. a message was received from the Margate coastguard that two ship’s boats had been seen near the Tongue Light-vessel.

A southerly breeze was blowing, and the sea was smooth. At 4.5...

ONCE many life-boatmen considered it an unlucky gift to swim too well but since those days things have changed. For well over a year now the R.N.L.I, has been evaluating the use of swimmers from life-boats, as well as the kind of special...

C class inflatable lands 112 passengers St Ives - South West Division The St Ives C class inflatable lifeboat can lay claim to some sort of a record after she ferried no less than 112 people ashore from local pleasure boats in a single...

North Sunderland, Northumberland.

At 12.2 p.m. on 2ist September, 1965, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht had capsized in Newton Bay and that two people were believed to be on board. At 12.5 the IRB...

RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUN' PAYMENTS.

LIFE-BOATS:— New life-boats for the following stations: On account— Anstruther, Cromer, Ilfracombe, Kirkcudbright, Newbiggin, St. Abbs, Wells, materials for future building and...

Aldeburgh, Suffolk. At 11.30 a.m.

on 4th October, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small motor launch was sending up red flares off Sizewell in moderate seas and a gentle east-south-easterly breeze....

TWO PATIENTS LANDED At i p.m. on nth December, 1963, the local nurse informed the honorary secretary that two patients needed to be taken to the mainland for hospital treatment.

There was a gale force wind from the...

Lerwick, Shetlands.—At 9.38 on the morning of the 31st of January, 1953, the coastguard telephoned to say a man at Skellister had reported that two men had left Gletness Nesting in aten-feet rowing boat at 7.30 to attend to their fishing...